Funding
Funding for processing provided by the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Access
The collection is open for research at the Museum of Paleontology, with permission from the
Museum Director. Contact Mark Goodwin for further
information.

Publication rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing
to the Director or the Principal Museum Scientist for forwarding. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of The Museum of Paleontology as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained
by the reader.

Preferred citation
[Identification of item], [collection name & number], University of California Museum of
Paleontology

Related collections
Researchers should also note that the Bancroft Library, the Bioscience and Natural Resources Library,
and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (all on the Berkeley campus) also hold some papers of Charles
L. Camp.

Entered the University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate in the Department of
Zoology, where his studies led to nine publications on mammalogy, herpetology, and a
description of fossil amphibian remains from the Rancho la Brea tar pits.

1915

Received a Bachelor's Degree from UC Berkeley.

1916

Received an M.A. at Columbia University.

1917

Camp attended the U.S. Army School at Plattsburgh, NY, was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Field
Artillery, and served overseas in the American Expeditionary Forces, where he advanced to
First Lieutenant. Camp was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for his service.

1922

Appointed to teach comparative anatomy in the UC Berkeley Zoology Department.

1923

Wrote Classification of the Lizards.
Received Ph.D. from Columbia under the tutelage of William K. Gregory and Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Appointed a Director of the California Historical Society and a member of its publications committee,
where he served until 1935.

1924

Married Jessie Margaret Pratt, with whom he later had four children: Charles, Nancy, Patsy, and
Roderick.

1930

Appointed Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, a position he maintained
until 1949.
Wrote "A Study of the phytosaurs with Description of New Material from Western North America."

1933

Began abstracting publications to compile a bibliography of fossil vertebrates.

1935-36

Received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study vertebrate mammal-like reptiles in the Karroo region of South
Africa, visit Triassic exposures in China with C.C. Young, and visit Triassic vertebrate collections
in Europe.

1937

Edited The Plains and the Rockies by Henry Raup Wagner.

1938

Camp and others resurrected the miners' organization E. Clampus vitus as a prominent historical
preservation fraternity and social club.

1939

Appointed Chair of the UC Berkeley Department of Paleontology, where he served until 1949.

1946

Elected President of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology.

1947-48

Second African Expedition to Karoo with Frank E. Peabody for study of vertebrates and to visit a number of
important Pleistocene sites associated with early humans.

1952

Published Earth Song: A Prelude to History.

1953

Excavated ichthyosaur fossils form the Shoshone Mountains in Nevada. Camp dedicated the next five summers
to this endeavor, eventually persuading the State of Nevada to declare the site a state park (Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park).

1959

Wrote monograph on dicynodonts.

1960

Retired from teaching at UC Berkeley.
Expedition to Western Australia with John Cosgriff to find Triassic vertebrates.
Published James Clyman Frontiersman: The Adventures of a Trapper
and Covered Wagon Emigrant as Told in His Own Reminisces and Diaries.